A Recording Tree This American home of his contained an
original Indian totem pole and a Judgement Seat, and he devised there a number of the games par- ticularly associated with the Roy Scout movement, of which he has some claim to be the originator. He organised a sort of holiday camp for the poorer boys of New York on the Indian model and himself invented a number of the best games. Most of them were described in his Birch-bark Roll, which was by arrangement published simultaneously with a similar Boy Scouts handbook in England. I was once asked if I would help to arbitrate in some dispute over these books that arose between him and General Baden-Powell. One of the chief difficulties about any co-operation between the Boy Scout movements in the United States and England was that the American public were perhaps supersensitively careful that the Boy Scout movement should have no sort of connection with the military ; and Baden Powell, in their view, had the misfortune to. possess army rank. Among the gifts that made Seton an even better lecturer than writer was exceptional skill as a mimic. He could imitate with extra- ordinary skill the calls of the animals he had studied in the wild with such lively affection.
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